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I have to admit that the Internet gods, who became popular a few years ago or even ten years ago, have unique advantages in selling film and television copyrights. Not only film and television copyrights, they are often bought out of all copyrights.

What is full copyright?

It is publishing copyright, film and television copyright, game copyright, etc., all the copyrights you can think of are packaged and sold. Full copyright buyout is more expensive, and it is also a common practice in the industry, but here is a small inside story: many are not very famous Although the author did not sell the full copyright, he also sold the film and television copyright.

Why don't these unfamiliar authors who only sell film and television rights adapt their own novels?

In fact, most of the film and television copyrights are fake.

It's not that no one really buys it, but it's not the film and television company that bought the film and television rights, but the copyright dealers. The copyright dealer, as the name suggests, is to buy the film and television copyrights of the lesser-known authors at a very low price, instead of the full copyright. If you become popular in the future, I will sell it to the film and television company at a high price. If it is not, I will Sell ​​it at a low price.

If all copyrights cost a few million, or at least more than one million, to sell, copyright dealers only buy film and television copyrights, which may cost less than 100,000. Often, such a book that is only sold for film and television rights cannot be shot immediately, and there is no possibility that the author will be the screenwriter of this book.

Besides, if it is really the film and television copyrights bought by a film and television company, it must have been bought by a small film and television company. Large film and television companies have bought out all copyrights. It is impossible to just film and television. Otherwise, after filming, they would be too lazy to fight with other copyright companies.

This filming is out, and the paper novels are definitely selling well. As a result, the copyright is in the hands of others. If you just make money for others, can you adapt anime? Yes, the animation is in the hands of others? Adapt the game? The copyright of the game is also in the hands of others. Do you want to make a bunch of peripheral items for this play? The copyright is also in the hands of others. All these have to be distributed to others. Why bother? Therefore, if large film and television companies plan to shoot a certain book, they will buy all the other copyrights of the book, whether it is publishing copyright, game copyright, or adaptation right.

This is the full copyright buyout. After filming and broadcasting, it is convenient for all parties to roll out and make profits.

Basically, as long as you are the true **** of online novels, all copyrights are sold.

Then why are these gods who have sold all copyrights unwilling to be the screenwriters of their own books? It is said that film and television dramas destroy the original works, often because the screenwriters have changed too much. The net literature industry is really powerful, and there are many great gods who sell all copyrights. Why do they prefer to adapt their books into a pile of **** instead of writing the script themselves What?

There are two reasons for this. One is that screenwriting is different from writing novels, which is troublesome to write. The second is money. In general, the trouble of adaptation is not a problem, the second is the most critical: money.

In the Empire, screenwriters don’t have a lot of money, especially well-known screenwriters who are unwilling to adapt online novels. The average screenwriter usually pays 50,000 to 60,000 yuan per episode and 10,000 to 20,000 words per episode. This is not bad. The price of a good screenwriter is only one or two thousand episodes for an unknown screenwriter.

Doesn't it look impressive? One to two thousand words is five to six thousand dollars. This seems to be a breeze for the well-known online gods who update tens of thousands of words every day. They also adapt their own novels, write their own novels, and make more money. Why don’t they? Adapt it yourself?

It's actually not as simple as thought.

Screenwriting and novel writing are in different industries. It's not that Internet novel masters can't write. Although they are different, they are similar. They all play words.

What the great gods don't want is this episode of 10,000 to 20,000 words, which needs to be revised over and over again, which is annoying.

Write your own new novel yourself, you have the final say, you can finish writing a chapter in one or two hours with your hands, and upload the matter directly. More great gods have their own studios and writers, and they don’t even need to write by themselves. , Tell the story outline to the writer, after writing and handwriting, you can read it for yourself.

Save trouble?

I wrote my own old novels, maybe 10,000 or 20,000 words would have to be edited four or five times, and it would take a month after these four or five times. Compared to updating a chapter of my own novel, it is too much effort.

Earn a lot of five to sixty thousand a month? Then you are wrong. The real God’s annual income is at least tens of millions. If you do the math, the God who earns tens of millions every year will be willing to earn forty to fifty thousand a month and write a manuscript by himself. How many times did you make changes?

Not to mention the great gods, just say that the top three of the best-selling list of a Hengzhong. It is also easy to get 40,000 to 50,000 per month. This is still very small. If you add a well-managed official account to reward, it will be 60,000 to 70,000 per month. It is the basic configuration.

Coupled with the sale of all copyrights, that would be millions of dollars a year.

The price of a certain Chinese novel?

At a certain point, the daily income of the book of the great gods is only subscribed, and the highest station can reach 100,000 yuan. Excluding the few hosts with a daily rate of about 100,000 yuan, the top 30 ranked at least every More than 10,000 a day, every day! A full copyright is sold for a million credits. Is it rare that this is forty to fifty thousand per month? !

If you adapt your own novels every month, you will always make changes. If you are too annoyed to say it, you will also influence yourself to write new books. If you influence yourself to write new books, you will lose money.

After all, the money is not worth it.

But it is impossible for a film and television company to give you a hundred thousand dollars a month, or an adaptation of a book that is large for you several million, should you adapt your own novel? It's not cost-effective. If the budget is exceeded, the film and television company can't do it. Besides, an episode of 50,000 or 60,000 is already the industry price. If you find a cheaper editor, you can win an episode of 10,000 or 20,000. How much money?

Therefore, if the author really wants his film to be well shot, he will adapt it himself, earning forty to fifty thousand yuan a month, and giving up the new book.

Abandoning new books is a taboo for online novel authors, and abandoning new books is tantamount to cutting their own money, so they will not adapt themselves.

So, if there is a conscientious screenwriter on the Internet novel stall, it is okay. The play is pretty good. If the film and television company has no money and finds a cheap screenwriter to adapt it for you, it will destroy the original.

"This novel is really good, but the screenwriter is hard to find. Well-known screenwriters don't want to change it. Unknown screenwriter. This novel needs to be changed. If it doesn't change well, then it will be bad." The team leader sighed.

"Ask the author to change it." Gao Leng thought for a while: "The price is higher, and the author must change it a lot better. After all, he knows his book best."

"This author is a female and has never shown her face. I don't know whether she is willing to change it or not. The main reason is that she doesn't know whether she has the ability to change."

High-quality TV series have extremely high demands on screenwriters. It seems that this author has never had experience in screenwriting, and the group leader is afraid to give the author the right of adaptation.

Especially female authors.

"Female?" Gao Leng was a little surprised. This book was clearly written by a male. How could it be written by a female author?

"Yes, woman." The group leader nodded affirmatively: "The author of this book is a woman."

This made Gao Leng amazed. He picked up the information in his hand and looked at it again. He smiled and said, "This is obviously a male essay, but it is actually a female author, which is interesting."